Instagram story viewer> @l.bedal> Posts

lauren bedal

@l.bedal

2.3K

followers

6529

following

Design & Media Art | Body As Interface
✺ designing for sensor data @archetype_ai
✺ media art @laurenbedal.studio
laurenbedal.com

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

Soo neat to see a recent digital art commission featured in @nytimes article on the reopening of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s Doris Duke Theatre, rebuilt as a hub for dance and technology. @jacobspillow

Author @clthomps spoke with Pamela Tatge about the theatre’s tech-forward vision and the opening week events, including Dancing the Algorithm, curated by the brilliant @khfdance , which showcases artists critically engaging with the aesthetics, politics, and possibilities of movement in an era increasingly shaped by algorithms and artificial intelligence.

It was incredibly meaningful to be part of the opening week celebration, and to share the space with artists whose work continues to inspire and expand the evolving boundaries of dance, including: @helloandrewjs @xin_ying_dance , @alanwinslow , @myles_avery and @kateladenheim , @memo_akten & @katiepeytonhofstadter ; @classicshimmy , @soundformovement @mingyong_art ; Kianí Del Valle & Hamill Industries; @entroplay ; Nora Gibson; @davidwallacehaskins ; @kambarayayoi @operator_______ ; @db.sierra ; @abodycam , and others!

Thank you to @khfdance for the opportunity and @soundformovement for the music track to support the piece so beautifully. 🤍 by @l.bedal

142

12

a year ago

Archetype X WIRED JAPAN 🇯🇵— we discuss how physical AI models like Newton act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using plain language to help people understand our built environment, complex machinery and human behaviors. @wired by @l.bedal

31

3

2 years ago

In 2024, our design team at Archetype (@archetype_ai) built a series of demos to showcase early signals of what our AI model can do. This one demonstrates real-time translation of sensor data into natural language descriptions.
The demo starts with an IMU sensor placed inside a package. Using an interface, you can adjust the model's "focus" to steer its output toward different goals, in this case, either tracking transit status or detecting package mishandling. Although deceptively simple, “underneath the hood” is a series of carefully written prompts that provide context for the data and the tone and format of the output.
From these demos, you can imagine several use cases, such as continuous monitoring of fragile shipments 🚚. Excited to share other demos we’ve been working on! #foundationmodels #sensors #multimodal by @l.bedal

81

3

6 months ago

40

0

3 days ago

@fastcompany placed @archetype_ai on its Next Big Things in Tech list for 2026. 🙌🏼 in their words:

“Large language models may know a lot, but because they have been trained on text and images. By contrast, Archetype’s Newton foundation model can interpret data from cameras, lidar, radar, inertial measurement units, and other sensors used in enterprise domains such as construction, logistics, manufacturing, and urban planning. Customers ranging from the city of Bellevue, Washington, to data services firm NTT Data to construction giant Kajima Corporation have adopted the model, which outperforms the major general-purpose LLMs on sensor-related tasks.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91612044/foundational-ai-next-big-things-in-tech-2026 taken in Palo Alto, California by @l.bedal

7

0

4 days ago

Registration is now OPEN for the workshop Body, Space, Time” Movement and software with CodeMoves (SF/CHI) at ELASTIC ARTS @elasticarts @framingmovessf @miryam.gabrielle @eamorck @l.bedal

October 17th, 2-4pm @ Elastic Arts in Logan Square

This workshop explores how software built in a community setting can support and deepen the choreographic process. Designed for movement artists, this workshop will allow participants to use, move with, and iterate on custom-built software tools (e.g. video mixing, spatial interactions) to help them deepen their inquiry on a topic of choice, while understanding their own interests and boundaries around technology use in their practice. We will end in a demonstration of explorations and community discussion. No coding, tech, or movement experience necessary.

This workshop is an extension of the CodeMoves initiative by The Movement Project, aimed at weaving technology into the creative practice. (learn more here: **https://www.codemoves.studio/**) CodeMoves was selected as a 2024 Knight New Work grantee, an initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that supports artists and organizations in Akron, Miami, and Detroit who are using technology to innovate how art is created, shared, and experienced.

Artist Bio

Elyse Morckel, Lauren Bedal, Miryam Gabrielle, and Varsha Iyengar are movement artists and creative technologists collaborating under CodeMoves. CodeMoves is an initiative of The Movement Project and core collaborators found here: https://www.themovementproject.org/codemoves by @l.bedal

3

1

9 days ago

Motion Capture + JavaScript 🤍 taken in Los Angeles, California by @l.bedal

33

2

15 days ago

A wonderful project from @amandawllg at @umeainstituteofdesign on Choreographic Interfaces.

We move through and with our devices all day, yet most interfaces still ask the body to adapt to the technology rather than the other way around. She asks what changes when dancers and choreographic thinking are brought into the design process itself: interviews, autobiographical research, recurring workshops with professional dancers, and a series of prototypes, from video sketches to projected feedback on the living-room floor.

The outcome is a concept where household devices learn the “choreographies” that naturally form between people who live together, and a matrix for evaluating how open a choreographic interface is to personalisation. I especially appreciated her honesty about power: deciding what the “right” movement is also decides what is wrong, and that can exclude.

She builds on people who have shaped this space, including @sydneyskybetter , Thecla Schiphorst, Kristina Höök, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Lise Amy Hansen and Andrew Morrison, and Jürgens, Correia and Masu’s survey of dance in HCI.

She also references the interview I did with Sydney Skybetter for Dance Magazine in 2020, citing the idea that interacting with digital information in 3D space shares its elements with choreography: interaction designers, like choreographers, need to understand the movement of the body, in space, over time. Seeing that line land in a new generation’s research is such a treat 🤍 by @l.bedal

24

5

a month ago

Last month, I had the opportunity to guest lecture at @columbia university in Professor Violet Whitney’s #spatialcomputing course, where I spoke on natural user interfaces and embodied interaction design.

During the session, I shared some work from my time at Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group, where we designed and developed a set of spatial input primitives for the Google Home ecosystem. This work encompassed both implicit and explicit interactions, ranging from subtle micro-gestures to comprehensive full-body movements. #spatialcomputing #gestureinteractions #hci taken in Columbia University by @l.bedal

60

2

2 years ago

[DETROIT PT. 01] @kaileyfraer, @emmadevore, and @madisonburris in y(our) utopia by @eamorck, at @andyartcenter in Detroit!

Y(our) utopia was one of two dance + technology works created as part of CodeMoves by @themovementproject (part of the @knightfdn 2024 Knight New Work grant).

Core team: @eamorck, @megleegar, @l.bedal, @miryam.gabrielle, @spatialpixel, @framingmovessf

Additional supporters: @andyartcenter , @jacobspillow, @nccakron, @rubbercitytheatre, @uakrondanceprogram, @svanyc, @e.j.thomashall

Additional collaborators: @blackvalve, @lady.red97, @defilippisss, @thefixxa, @jesse_carrey, @yokoteki, @davegeffin

Photos by @blackvalve @evanprunty
Learn more at themovementproject.org/codemoves by @l.bedal

67

1

3 months ago

old improv 🤍 new visual
workflows using movement x @fuserstudio @figmaweave taken in Los Angeles, California by @l.bedal

36

4

a month ago

In April, I went up to @cacollegeofarts for their Graduate Admitted Day, joining a panel titled “The Future of Things: AI as a New Material for Design”, in conversation with Tim Belonax (Anthropic) @timbelonax @anthropicai , Thomas J. McLeish (CCA), Karl Willis (Autodesk) @autodesk and our brilliant moderators Elena Pacenti @pacentielena and Justin Lokitz.

We explored how AI isn’t just a tool but a material with its own behaviors, biases, and affordances. We talked about generative systems, physical AI, and the responsibility we hold as designers to shape how people experience emerging technologies.

A few takeaways:
→ The rise in multimodal AI models and how this opens new possibilities for interaction & input paradigms
→ How to foster a culture of experimentation around this new technological material
→ And the sheer ambiguity we’re navigating, as Thomas shared “We’re in the horseless carriage era of AI. We don’t know how to drive it yet. But like any transformative technology, we’ll figure it out by exploring its edges.”

Grateful to CCA for hosting such a rich and timely conversation.

#AIDesign #PhysicalAI @archetype_ai #HumanComputerInteraction #CCA #DesignFutures #GenerativeAI #CreativeTechnology taken in California College of the Arts by @l.bedal

73

2

a year ago